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- Tue Aug 02, 2022 12:02 pm
- Forum: ZX Spectrum Next
- Topic: Spectrum Next Kickstarter 2 - Latest update - Delivery Q3 2023
- Replies: 28
- Views: 1399
Re: Spectrum Next Kickstarter 2 - Latest update - Delivery Q3 2023
I just want to point out that the reason for this delay is the worldwide shortage of FPGA chips. Except for that vital component, the KS2 project is pretty much ready for production. Originally, KS2 would use the same FPGA as in KS1, the Xilinx Spartan-6. However, since Xilinx has recently halted th...
- Mon Mar 21, 2022 3:36 pm
- Forum: ZX Spectrum Next
- Topic: Next after a year of ownership
- Replies: 49
- Views: 2101
Re: Next after a year of ownership
I like my Next very much. I've used it to play the original games and some of the new Next-specific titles. But mainly I use it for development. It's super fun to develop for the Next :) It has an excellent BASIC in form of NextBasic and very good C support in form of z88dk. It's quite easy to get g...
- Sun Mar 20, 2022 9:20 pm
- Forum: ZX Spectrum Next
- Topic: Level 9 games for Spectrum Next
- Replies: 4
- Views: 372
Level 9 games for Spectrum Next
I'm happy to announce that a porting of the open source Level 9 interpreter is now available for the Spectrum Next. This interpreter supports all of Level 9's games (19 in total), uses the improved graphics from the Commodore Amiga and Atari ST versions of the games and provides saving/loading of th...
- Fri Jan 28, 2022 11:02 am
- Forum: Graphics
- Topic: Showcasing my graphics
- Replies: 458
- Views: 41600
Re: Showcasing my graphics
Great stuff!
- Fri Aug 20, 2021 10:32 am
- Forum: Sinclair Miscellaneous
- Topic: Friday Quiz: SCRambled Part VIII - The Revenge Of The Return Of The Revenge
- Replies: 46
- Views: 1339
- Fri Aug 20, 2021 9:57 am
- Forum: Sinclair Miscellaneous
- Topic: Friday Quiz: SCRambled Part VIII - The Revenge Of The Return Of The Revenge
- Replies: 46
- Views: 1339
- Wed Jun 02, 2021 1:33 pm
- Forum: Sinclair Miscellaneous
- Topic: RIP John "Rochdale Balrog" Wilson
- Replies: 20
- Views: 1074
Re: RIP John "Rochdale Balrog" Wilson
So sad news, RIP John Wilson.
- Tue Jun 01, 2021 8:53 pm
- Forum: Brand new software!
- Topic: Wonderland
- Replies: 15
- Views: 784
Re: Wonderland
UPDATE: An important bug fix has been made to Wonderland version 1.1.0 and the downloads for Wonderland and the Magnetic Scrolls Compilation have been updated. Previously, the game could crash when saving or loading a game position during playback of an animation. This has now been fixed. Thanks [m...
- Mon May 31, 2021 7:30 pm
- Forum: Brand new software!
- Topic: Wonderland
- Replies: 15
- Views: 784
Re: Wonderland
[mention]Magic Knight[/mention] FYI, I have reproduced and located the bug. It was an IM2 blunder from my side I will report back when I have a new version available.
- Mon May 31, 2021 1:52 pm
- Forum: Brand new software!
- Topic: Wonderland
- Replies: 15
- Views: 784
Re: Wonderland
[mention]Magic Knight[/mention] Thanks, I just wanted to make sure. Hopefully, I will be able to reproduce this issue tonight
- Mon May 31, 2021 1:38 pm
- Forum: Brand new software!
- Topic: Wonderland
- Replies: 15
- Views: 784
Re: Wonderland
Great, thanks. On my machine, the graphics which are animated turn into rectangular blobs and the game freezes. A saved file is created, but the game cannot load it up. Savind and loading is otherwise fine. Just to make sure, do you have a "real" Spectrum Next or a compatible system (e.g....
- Mon May 31, 2021 1:12 pm
- Forum: Brand new software!
- Topic: Wonderland
- Replies: 15
- Views: 784
Re: Wonderland
[mention]Magic Knight[/mention] I just tested saving the game in the CSpect emulator when having a running animation and that worked fine. Tonight I will also test on actual hardware and see if I can reproduce the problem. Thanks
- Mon May 31, 2021 1:10 pm
- Forum: Brand new software!
- Topic: Wonderland
- Replies: 15
- Views: 784
Re: Wonderland
[mention]Magic Knight[/mention] That is not a known problem. I just tested saving the game in the CSpect emulator when having a running animation and that worked fine. Tonight I will also test on actual hardware and see if I can reproduce the problem. Thanks
- Mon May 31, 2021 11:40 am
- Forum: Brand new software!
- Topic: Wonderland
- Replies: 15
- Views: 784
Wonderland
Strand Games is happy to announce that Wonderland, the last of the Magnetic Scrolls games, is now available for free for the Spectrum Next. Wonderland is a huge game featuring over 100 location images with many of them animated and it was originally only released for 16/32-bit systems. For the first...
- Wed May 19, 2021 11:48 am
- Forum: ZX Spectrum Next
- Topic: test.bank loaded into the next at NextBuild?
- Replies: 3
- Views: 251
Re: test.bank loaded into the next at NextBuild?
There is a Discord group for Spectrum Next with a dedicated channel for development with Boriel and NextBuild that is quite active:
https://discord.gg/eAsEdfb
I think you have a higher chance of getting help with NextBuild there
https://discord.gg/eAsEdfb
I think you have a higher chance of getting help with NextBuild there
- Tue May 18, 2021 10:22 pm
- Forum: ZX Spectrum Next
- Topic: Next : Bank und Slot.
- Replies: 4
- Views: 248
Re: Next : Bank und Slot.
I don't know anything about NextBuild but from your first post it looks like the MMU8 command is of the form MMU8(<MMU-slot-number>, <MMU-page-number>) where MMU-slot-number is 0 - 7 and MMU-page-number is 0 - 95. So your examples would mean the following: MMU8(6, 32) means page in MMU page 32 into ...
- Tue May 18, 2021 9:38 pm
- Forum: ZX Spectrum Next
- Topic: Next : Bank und Slot.
- Replies: 4
- Views: 248
Re: Next : Bank und Slot.
I'm not familiar with NextBuild but I can give you some info on the Spectrum Next memory layout. The Spectrum Next has 64 KB addressable memory. This memory is divided in 8 MMU slots of 8 KB each and numbered from 0 to 7. An unexpanded ZX Spectrum Next has 1 MB physical RAM of which 768 KB is availa...
- Thu May 13, 2021 8:22 pm
- Forum: Other Retro Stuff
- Topic: I keep wanting an Enterprise
- Replies: 36
- Views: 1135
Re: I keep wanting an Enterprise
Yes, Your Computer was my favourite magazine as a youngster. I think we may have read the same feature. I was super impressed too. Your Computer was also my favourite magazine. I loved reading about all the different computer models that emerged during the 80s. I also read YS, SU, Crash and sometim...
- Thu May 13, 2021 10:00 am
- Forum: Other Retro Stuff
- Topic: I keep wanting an Enterprise
- Replies: 36
- Views: 1135
Re: I keep wanting an Enterprise
I remember reading about the Enterprise in Your Computer and being super impressed by it hardware specs Sadly, the computer never reached the Swedish market.
- Wed Apr 28, 2021 7:32 pm
- Forum: Website
- Topic: ZXDB Update 23/04/2021
- Replies: 45
- Views: 1241
Re: ZXDB Update 23/04/2021
[mention]hitm4n[/mention] The easiest way to contact the SpecNext team is to send a mail to [email protected]. In practice, I think Mike Cadwallader handles most of their web site and replies to specnext.com mails. He's a really nice chap by the way
- Tue Apr 27, 2021 1:44 pm
- Forum: Website
- Topic: ZXDB Update 23/04/2021
- Replies: 45
- Views: 1241
Re: ZXDB Update 23/04/2021
For reference, specnext.com uses 640 x 512 for their Spectrum Next screenshots:
https://www.specnext.com/software-directory/
https://www.specnext.com/software-directory/
- Tue Apr 27, 2021 8:52 am
- Forum: Website
- Topic: ZXDB Update 23/04/2021
- Replies: 45
- Views: 1241
- Mon Apr 26, 2021 8:20 pm
- Forum: Website
- Topic: ZXDB Update 23/04/2021
- Replies: 45
- Views: 1241
Re: ZXDB Update 23/04/2021
I noticed that you have added an entry for the Magnetic Scrolls Compilation. Here is more information about this compilation, the individual games and Strand Games: Strand Games: https://strandgames.com/projects/zxnext The Magnetic Scrolls Compilation: https://gitlab.com/strandgames/brahman/-/tree/m...
- Mon Apr 26, 2021 12:08 pm
- Forum: Games/Software
- Topic: Do you remember the first time?
- Replies: 51
- Views: 2226
Re: Do you remember the first time?
Except for Horizons, I think one of the following must have been the first game I loaded: Jetpac, Pssst or Chequered Flag. I'm not sure though, it was a long time ago :) My first home computer was a Spectrum 48K that I bought together with my father. I paid half of the price and mowed the lawn for t...
- Sun Apr 11, 2021 6:46 pm
- Forum: ZX Spectrum Next
- Topic: ZX Next show picture
- Replies: 3
- Views: 328
Re: ZX Next show picture
Yes, Next's 8KB paging scheme is very flexible